Please Help a semi Newbie

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lecherro

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I am trying to run an autorun cd rom. it will not launch itself, so i double click the disc icon and it opens up a window which contains a couple folders and a couple unix executable files. Is there any way to play this disk using and app or unix or something. I am desperate to run this disk.

Just for info sake it is a disk from a cookbook. i am on a new Intel macBook

Thank you in advance for any info you may be able to help me with.
 
What files and folders are in the window that opens? Have you tried opening any of them?
 
There are some folders full of swf files and other folders containg jpg. files
they all apear to be parts for menus and and data needed for the cookbook.
I can open the jpg files just fine but the swf files wont open and prompt me for a program to open them. The two exe files dont do anything.
 
Most CDs won't autorun on a Mac. This one may be designed to be used with Windows. You have an Intel Mac, which can use Windows if you have the need to do so, but Windows needs to be installed. You will likely find that if you install Windows (using Apple's Boot Camp software) that the CD will then work in Windows.
 
'I am trying to run an autorun cd rom.' - is too generic a description (of the CD). Please specify the name of the CD, its publisher, and possibly a web site link.

'... opens up a window which contains a couple folders and a couple unix executable files.' - the files are not UNIX executable files; but, most likely Windoze executable files.

Consider taking a picture, and posting (as a reply), of the hierarchical structure of the CD.

Lt Major Burns excellent suggestion applies when one drags a '.swf' file onto a web page, or when the '.swf' file is navigated to and selected via the applications' 'File, Open File...' menu item.
You will not be able to drag the 'swf' file(s) onto the 'Safari', 'Firefox', etc ... 'Dock' icon.
Any 'swf' file dragged onto a window which previously had a '.swf' file dragged onto it - will be ignored. You must open a new web page for each dragged '.swf' file.

'iSwiff', mentioned by Curiosity, is a nice '.swf' viewer.
Like the web browsers mentioned above - you cannot drag a '.swf' file onto the window of an existing '.swf'. Unlike the web browsers above - you can drag multiple selected '.swf' files onto the 'iSwiff' 'Dock' icon. You can also view a '.swf' file by navigating to and selecting it via the applications' 'File, Open File...' menu item.
 
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